A website opened on Tuesday and revealed that Gen Urobuchi's Fate/Zero prequel light novel series will be adapted from a stage musical titled Musical Fate/Zero. The play will run from January to February next year in Tokyo and Osaka.
Image via Musical Fate/Zero stage play's X/Twitter account
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Hideyuki Nishimori (Danganronpa, My Hero AcadeKaren, Persona 5 stage play, Moriarty the Patriot musical, Romeo and Black Brothers) is writing the script, directing the musical, and writing the lyrics. Urobuchi supervised the script.
Fate/Zero is a prequel novel series to the visual novel game Fate/stay night by Type-Moon, focusing on the Fourth Holy Grail War and its characters, the dramatic events leading up to it. Next comes the Fifth Holy Grail War in Fate/stay night. The story primarily focuses on Kiritsugu Emiya, a professional “magician assassin” assigned by a famous family of mages to compete as a Master in the Holy Grail War, as he is torn between pragmatism, love, and love. love for his wife and daughter, and the sacrifices he must make to win.
Nitroplus writer Gen Urobuchi first collaborated with Type-Moon as a guest writer on the Fate/hollow ataraxia fan disc. Fate/Zero emerged out of discussions with Type-Moon writer Kinoko Nasu and artist Takashi Takeuchi, and was initially sold as a four-book dōjin work under Type-Moon from Comiket 71 to 73 (December 1999). 2006 to December 2007). Star Seas Company later offered the novel commercially as a six-book Bunkoban edition in January–June 2011.
The novels later inspired both a television anime and a manga adaptation. The television anime ran from October 2011 to June 2012 and was the first time ufotable produced an anime in Type-Moon's Fate series, leading to future collaborations. The anime is streamed on Neon Alley with an English dub, and the series is streamed on Crunchyroll as it airs. Shinjirō launched the manga in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine in 2011 and ended it in May 2017. Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga in 2014.
Source: Fate/Zero stage play website, Comic Natalie
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